Inside of us

Inside all of us
a child still lurks
and looks out at the big
wide world
with great big eyes
understands that other
earthlings inhabit
our countryside
and together really
all of us are hurled

take forests there are lots
of trees
Deers and Badgers Foxes too
lots of lovely Bluebells, Bracken
Holly, true
we all share them sometimes
all of them we should
never ever harm them
for all of them are good
birds and worms and all the squirms
beetles and theres lots
some are big and some are tiny
just like little dots

when we are wrapped
in our duvets
with the central heating on
they are tucked up in their copses
nests,caves,setts upon
their bits of dry material
out of the frost and snow
inside of us there lurks a child
as all of you now know

and children are a kindly bunch
they never harm a soul
each tiny creature
lives its life
with a, purposeful role
its not for us to doubt that
or ever harm them, we
must live beside them
all our lives
in perfect harmony

Inspired by a posting this evening from my dearest friend Ms Claudia Ferri
who sent me a article about someone called Alice Walker and her lovely garden
this is what I felt at the time